CHANGE SEEN IN TOP CIA OFFICIALDOM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000200130113-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 24, 1999
• Sequence Number: 113
• Publication Date: July 17, 1961
• Content Type: NSPR

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MORNING 61,175
SUNDAY 189,553
KennedySet
To Revamp
Operations
'By .JAMES RESTON
0 N .Y. Times News Service
Washington-President Ken-
nedy has decided on the first.
revision of his six-month-old
adiriinistra tion
It is understood that he will
not only . change the top offi-
cials of the Central Intelii.
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Officialdom
gence Agency, but also decide
today on the future direction of
the Department of State.
The President has decided tc
replace Allen W. Dulles as di.
JUL i 7 1961
tb'a t 1A officials in his terri Stand on Angola
tory must report directly toy Mr. Bowles has also been one
him. of the leading supporters of the
There, is or conflict of policy of supporting African
pers stiity policy develop.' nations, such as Angola against
ing here bet en the White Portugal, and this has brought
House and U; der Secretary of him into conflict with officials
State Chester Bowles, former! of the State Department who:
governor of ..Connecticut andwish to give first priority to'
U.S. ambassador to India. ;maintenance of the North At-
For the last several days, r u .lantic Treaty Alliance, rather
mors have circulated in the than to their African colonies.
a prelim _7 WY Mis
matter between resident Ken-
nedy and Mr. Bowles ache
White House last Thursday.
At that time, it was decided
that the President and Jr.
Bowles should discuss their
problem here today. There is
reason to believe that the Presi-
dent will ask Mr, Bowles to
resign and accept an ambassa-
dorship in Latin America. -
There are a number of rea-
sons for the controversy, in-
cluding the following:
The White House has been
highly critical of the adminis-
tration of the State Depart-
ment in the last six months.
Traditionally, the under secre-
tary of state, is` responsible for
seeing that the machinery of
this vast bureaucracy works ef-
ficiently, and while Mr. Bowles
has administered other impor-
;with the. party. He was assigned!
the task early in this adminis-i
tration of recoaIrft ding to Mr.!
Kennedy ambassadors to the
KU.S. embassies. abroad.' As a
'result of this assignment, he
came up with a nun'iber of uns
traditional proposals - untral'
ditional in the sense that the "!
were neither members of the
professional Foreign Service of
the United States nor influen-
tial contributors to the Demo-
cratic Party.
. Annong his suggestions were
J. Kenneth Galbraith and
Edwin O. Reischauer, Harvard
professors, as ambassadors re-
spectively to India and Japan,
and William Atwood, former as-
sociate of Adlai Stevenson and
reporter for Look magazine, as
ambassador to the Republic of:
Guinea.
tant federal agencies, such as,
Bowles either to the Demo-1
the Office of_ Price Adminis-4 cratic faithful or to the Foreign
tration during the war, his pri-Service officers who coveted
mary interest lies in the field,~these posts, so that for all
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Out . .
,. t deputy director, Richard Bissell
... Aliep, W. Dulles One report circulating in the
~'~ capital last night was tiiai
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Clark Clifford,"fornier assistant
to President Truman, will re,
`place Mr. Dulles, but it can be
stated that this is entirely false,
It is understood that thq
President has made three deei,
lions about the CIA:
1. The top direction of the
agency should be changed.
2. Despite reports to the con
trarv, the intelligence-gather-y
I fag function of the CIA and'
the military operations of the(
CIA, such as direction of tire'
Cuban invasion, should not be=
split. but placed under the r1 _`
irection of a new CIA offir ?.r
,who would report! directly to
the President's new militac
Appro
u-s. diplomatic and ir...
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ion, u
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these reasons, but particularly
policy. ion,
he had developed into
Mr. Bowles differed witty el the "no" man of the administra-
administration policy on thei:tion's foreign policy, he built up
adventure in Culaa, said so at
a powerful coalition of op
the time b
t
t b
ht
u
w no
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roug
, into the major cussions on Iponents.
"-- 9 Kennedy ?Stand Known
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He has not argued for the
admission of Communist China
into the United Nations, or for
the recognition of that regime,
but has insisted that the opin-
;Jthat this question be faced and
debalaed vigorously within the
l Kennedy administration. Thjs
ful senators on Capitol Hill and'
) has embroiledhim in the con-
troversy over what
poll the
U.S. is going to follo this
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telbgence operations rt7eI
,. issue in the September apssion
s
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bassador should be instructed
President Kennedy's reactioi
to all this is widely known in
Washington. He is understood
to have been irritated with Mr.
Bowles because the under sec-
retary opposed the policy of
supporting the Cuban refugees
in their attack on the Castro
regime.
He is also known to be ex-
tremely annoyed by the re-
peated delays in getting de-
cisions on the Berlin question
out of the Department of State,
and from the North Atlantic
Treaty's allies.
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